{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2001-05-02","airworthiness_ops":"Utility","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2021-07-12","city":"AUSTIN","country_code":"US","county_code":"453","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"00000","engine_horsepower":0,"engine_maker":"NONE","engine_model":"NONE","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2028-07-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"gliders","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-05-26","maker":"Pzl-Swidnik","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"PZL-SWIDNIK","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"9810150","mode_s_code":"50011655","mode_s_hex":"A013AD","model":"PW-5","n_number":"N104BD","name":"LAPPIN THOMAS","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"CAMERON PARK","damage":"DEST","date":"2001-07-14","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"LAX01LA244","probable_cause":"an in-flight collision with terrain for undetermined reasons.","registration":"N104BD","state":"CA","summary":"Accident on July 14, 2001 at Cameron Park, CA: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal).","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":0,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N104BD is a Pzl-Swidnik PW-5, a glider with no engine, built in 1997. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Austin, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 12, 2021 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for utility, dated May 2, 2001.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Lappin Thomas, an individual, certificate issued July 12, 2021, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 2, 2001, 4 years after the 1997 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains.","item":"Airworthiness certificate date","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17.08.024 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N104BD was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Levitsky Richard B LEVITSKY BD-5T (serial RL001, cancelled November 29, 2001). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No bills of sale, loans or releases have reached the registry in recent weeks. The index covers only recent filings; older liens are in the records file.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"1 NTSB record under N104BD: Accident on July 14, 2001 at Cameron Park, CA: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). Details below.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"These live in the FAA aircraft records file (every document ever filed against the aircraft) and, for larger aircraft, the International Registry. Part of the full report.","item":"Title chain, liens and 337 forms","source":null,"status":"PENDING"},{"finding":"AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.","item":"Airworthiness directives and utilization","source":null,"status":"PENDING"}],"records_check_sources":[{"n":1,"name":"FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":2,"name":"FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download)","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":3,"name":"FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":4,"name":"NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL)","url":"https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search"}],"region":"Southwestern","region_code":"2","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":1,"serial_number":"17.08.024","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"TX","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"14002 SASKATCHEWAN DR","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Glider","type_aircraft_code":"1","type_engine":"None","type_engine_code":"0","unique_id":"00706831","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N104BD","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1997,"zip":"787343348"}